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China Releases Test Footage of Ballistic Missile Defense System (mirror.co.uk)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Mirror.co.uk: China has released footage of its first interception test of a mid-air ballistic missile, destroying a target miles above Earth. Footage of the experiment, which took place in 2010, has never been made public until now. According to Chinese news agency CCTV, Xu Chunguang, an expert working at a military base in northwest China, said: "All of our research is meant to solve problems that may crop up in future actual combats." It reportedly took researchers another three years to develop the core technologies to improve the system. A second successful test was reportedly conducted in January 2013. China's decision to finally release the footage could be seen as a warning shot to the U.S., which was critical of China for not notifying the Pentagon of the tests at the time. In May, China announced it would send submarines armed with nuclear missiles into the Atlantic Ocean, arguing it had little choice if America continued to advance its weapons systems. China has recently denounced South Korea's decision to deploy a U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-missile system to counter threats from North Korea, saying that it harmed the foundation of their mutual trust.
Really fake
I don't always click on the linked articles, but when I do they look fake AF.
Does footage == animation now?
I really enjoyed the comment about it harming our basis of mutual trust. The implication being that we 'trust' they are violating every agreement and treaty they've ever participated in and that they 'trust' we are spying on their every move ?
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
They want to protect themselves from an ICBM, fine. I'd be more worried about one coming in rogue from a muslim extremist terrorist than from the USA, especially in light of the military cutbacks, downsizing etc. Even if the USA/China would get into a shootin' match...the drones, stealth, cruise missiles might get through. And at that, would it really matter, after all "wouldn't you rather play a game of chess?"
Funny, I thought the trust was that they trusted that the other side would invade them.
I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.
I feel like I just watched a clip of something from the ScFy channel.
'In May, China announced it would send submarines armed with nuclear missiles into the Atlantic Ocean,...'
Yeah, and the Canadians will find them; and, unlike with the US, will not mind embarrassing them when they do.
Chinas propaganda CG videos meant for internal consumption have also been released for the rest of the world.
I don't doubt that the Chinese have developed some anti ballistic missile capability, but this video is not of it.
Venezuela has been allowing China to park their first Jin nuke carrying subs there for 6 long years since the first 1 went operational.
It has been prowling the gulf all this time. At this moment, the sub goes around the horn, but the reason for China building a new canal through central america has nothing to do with cargo and everything to do with allowing nuke subs to transfer quietly and unseen by the west, via the new DEEP canal.
This is part of the reason why America remains in the south Chinese sea.
That has to be a joke. Something from the 50s, right? Did they blow the dust off some propaganda films and reuse the celluloid?
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
and unseen by the west, via the new DEEP canal.
It's not deep enough for that. Sorry, one doesn't sneak a sub through a canal with satellite and human int coverage.
I never understood that logic. We can have enough missiles pointed at you to turn all of your major cities into slag, but the moment you put up a system that would protect yourself from those missiles, hoo boy!
If russia can take "areas", then so can china. Sure china always comes off as more passive, but they also got shit to prove now and a history of being invaded that they have no interest in ever having repeated.
They think they worked hard to get all the wealth of the west, so damn right they better be treated the same! If ole drunky russia can saunter over and just take shit, well then the focused and organized chinese can too. I've also heard their economy isnt doing so well, which frequently can increase military tensions.
fallout here we come!
I doubt you can sneak one around the horn either.
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they were already able to do that to orbiting satellites 3-4 years earlier...
https://celestrak.com/events/asat.asp
Considering that we are talking about a west to east passage (the other way makes not much sense, at least not in "sneaking"): yes you can. ... it can only be detected by luck.
a) the ocean currents are strong from west to east, like 6 knots IIRC, so you let the boat travel without power by the currents
b) the gap between cape horn and antarctica is about 10 degrees big, that is 1852*60*10 meters = 1111200m aka 1111.200km about 690 land miles, or obviously 600 nautical miles.
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Considering that we are talking about a west to east passage (the other way makes not much sense, at least not in "sneaking"): yes you can. a) the ocean currents are strong from west to east, like 6 knots IIRC, so you let the boat travel without power by the currents ... it can only be detected by luck.
b) the gap between cape horn and antarctica is about 10 degrees big, that is 1852*60*10 meters = 1111200m aka 1111.200km about 690 land miles, or obviously 600 nautical miles.
It would be difficult to pilot the boat when depending on the current for propulsion. Not to mention the fact that the submarine requires power generation (or snorkeling if it is a battery/diesel) and life support systems. Those all make noise to some degree due to pumps and whatnot. It may still be possible to hear the submarine, it depends on how skilled they are at noise dampening.
The Chinese are building expertise at noise dampening. It's an easier problem to dampen the noise of a battery/diesel sub than it is a nuclear sub.
SRSLY? A diesel/electric sub is only quiet under electric drive. The range is bupkis compared with nukes. The diesel drive only can function within snorkel depths -- so much for nondetectability.
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Yes, seriously.
We are talking about a nuclear sub obviously.
And in 50 meter depth, in an over 1000km wide 'channel' you don't need steering.
Modern subs under electric drive use fuel cells, and not batteries, hence they mostly have either no combustion engine aka diesel or a gas turbine. So they use the same natural gas either for the gas turbine when not diving or under snorkel or for the electric engine when diving.
And obviously, when they want to avoid detection, they are not running under diesel power in snorkel depth.
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
Why is it always the government vs the government when the actual people don't give a fuck about invading another country?
How deep it is, actually? The good, old under-the-boat trick might work for fooling lazy magnetometer reader or one without "big data" processing capability.
might work for fooling lazy magnetometer reader or one without "big data" processing capability
It'd fool me. But then I'm neither a major world power or trying.
Well dampening should be easy seeing as they are under water.
P.S. Unless you meant "damping", of course.
Daniel Klugh
Well dampening should be easy seeing as they are under water.
P.S. Unless you meant "damping", of course.
See definition 2 and let me know what you think I meant.